Letter book, 1835-1840 (inclusive).

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Letter book, 1835-1840 (inclusive).

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A single letter book containing copies of 173 letters sent by Henry Perkins Salter to his captains, agents, and others. The letters contain detailed instructions from Salter on cargoes, routes, shipping rates, payment of accounts, outfitting and maintenance of ships, and costs and types of provisions. Salter's ships carried cotton, salt, tobacco, and sugar, as well as occasional passengers. His captains included Joseph Grace, Samuel Elridge Jr., George C. Boardman, Samuel Shuckford, and Andrew Clark.

1 linear ft. (1 v.)

Harvard Business School, Knowledge and Library Services/Baker Library

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Harvard Business School, Knowledge and Library Services/Baker Library

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Shuckford, Samuel, 1693 or 1694-1754

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Samuel Shuckford (d. 1754), historian, was born in Norwich around 1694. He attended grammar schools in Norwich and Botesdale, Suffolk, before studying at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, 1712-1719 (B.A., 1716; M.A., 1720). He was ordained deacon in 1717, and priest in 1719, and was rector of Shelton, Norfolk, 1722-1746, and vicar of Seething and Mundham, Norfolk. He was a prebend of Canterbury, and obtained the living of All Saints, Lombard Street, London. He died on 14 July 1754. ...

Salter, Henry Perkins.

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Henry Perkins Salter was a Portsmouth, New Hampshire, ship owner and agent. During the 1830s, Salter's vessels, the brigs Columbus and Agrila and the ships Huron and Montgomery, plied both coastal and transatlantic trade routes. The vessels carried cotton, tobacco, sugar, and salt from Boston and New York to New Orleans, Savannah, Mobile, and Charleston. They also sailed to numerous European and Caribbean ports, including Liverpool, Le Havre, Antwerp, Cadiz, and Havana. From the desc...

Huron (Ship)

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Whaling vessel, out of Sag Harbor, N.Y., mastered by a Captain Green; owner-agent: L.D. Cook. From the description of Log/journal, 1843 Feb. 28-Sept. 24. (Nantucket Hist Association). WorldCat record id: 71013340 ...

Montgomery (Ship)

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Elridge, Samuel, Jr.

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Grace, J. Peter (Joseph Peter)

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Columbus (Brig)

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Agrila (Brig)

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